“Yay” -> “ Bless your heart.”

ULPT: Add "you" -> "y'all" in your significant other's phone's autocorrect.

ctrl-del also works for deleting forward, and ctrl-left and -right skips left/right word by word. ctrl-shift-left and -right highlights word by word.

Call Chat Chatshaw!

I think it’s because the “turns” in the Chestnut diamond are not a tight as they are on the others. You get put in your lane on the other diamonds, but this one is pretty swoopy.

If the democrats voted in the republican primary (totally allowable, just request the (R) ballot at the poll), dems + reasonable republicans could elect a "better" nominee.

Edit: It wouldn't have taken very many votes…

IT’S A FRENCH TOAST EMERGENCY!

At what point is it just straight-up racism that the state government (controlled by white republicans) won’t fix the infrastructure in the largest black community, which also happens to mostly vote democrat?

Primary mission operations are $30MM/yr; this includes launch activities, landing, and commissioning. The actual cost of the next four years was roughly $15MM/yr. It goes in the annual budget, and congress views this as a good return on investment. If they end up objecting, they can always choose to not fund it.

The budget to “run science” on a craft is pennies compared to the cost of building, launching, and landing the craft.

Also, The Martian was accurate in how they have an exact copy of every rover and lander they send out so that they can try out fixes/solutions on Earth before they send them out.

You perform a Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA). Once you know the failure modes that you can’t design out of the system, you design mitigation for the rest. You then add redundancy for those modes you can’t mitigate. Finally, you take the probability of an individual critical failure happening and calculate the duration before there is X% chance that a critical failure has occurred, and that’s your planned mission length. If it’s too short, you put in more mitigation or redundancy.

On all prior Mars landers, NASA has relied on Martian wind to clean off the solar panels. That worked fine here, as the lander was active for over twice its planned mission.

It’s a worst-case scenario estimate. If the worst-case scenario still justifies the cost, then the project is worth moving forward with trying to get prioritized into the budget. Of course, they buy the absolute best (highest-reliability) gear, and have some of the most sophisticated failure analysis and prevention tools in the world, which contributes to extended longevity.

Basically, it’s better to under-promise and over-deliver, especially when you’re the part of the government that has to really struggle for funding.

Nope. I'll just continue to ignore the fact that I ever found out about this and keep enjoying strawberries, thankyouverymuch.

If you haven’t called anyone yet, we really like United Plumbing; they’re 24/7.

Apparently, this is even more fucked up than I realized. https://www.kcur.org/politics-elections-and-government/2022-09-28/why-kansas-citys-police-budget-can-be-a-mystery-even-to-the-mayor

You’re a dunce. Just google “free ride to polls.”

Kansas City lowered funding for police earlier this year, the legislature threw a temper tantrum that they couldn’t force a city to spend more on policing, so now they’re trying to amend the state constitution to require KC to spend a full 25% of their budget on policing.

I haven’t seen a single sign for her. Not looking good.

It is easily the best thing on their menu!